I don't normally make journals anymore. It isn't my go-to for when I have something to say or if I want to share my thoughts. But this would be too long for a status (and I don't want it lingering on my page like a long sad note to self).
At 8:50 pm,
SakuraRoseLily and I were talking about our DnD characters as we set up for our very first session. As always we got off-topic -as one does when talking to her, I brought up my love for Hetalia and how it was my first anime that made me fall in love with every character. It was the first time I felt extremely happy to rush home from middle school and watch eps (hell sometimes I would watch them at school). It was the first anime that allowed me to be silly and mimic accents, I used to be so good at them but over time I lost them the same with doing voices. Except I can still do Canada's voice!
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This really got me in my thoughts about the past and how much fun everything was. How much I was ready to grow up and go to cons, meet cosplayers, cosplay, and make a new family. I want to cosplay Alfred so bad, he isn't my top fav but I really wanted to be him. I wanted to find my Arthur and be silly, I wanted to do skits, CMVs, I wanted to roleplay. I wanted to call each other by our character names even when we weren't dressed up. Laugh when he realize we did that but answer each other anyway. I wanted to find other people that would be the rest of my Hetalia cosplay world. I wanted to draw a circle and it is the Earth. I told myself when I was 12/13/14 that when I became 16/17 I would run off and cosplay and meet my youtube idols and become friends. But when I became 16/17 I realized that they got older too, some grew out of their anime phase and or they moved on to something else. The people around me that liked anime thought Hetalia was boring, it was old. So I didn't have anyone obsessed like me. When Homestuck come around all of Hetalians move there and so did I, and I loved it so much, I wanted to be Tavros or Gamzee or Meenah. I was down for the clown, I was ready to spit fire, I wanted to put on my lipstick and tell my none existed girlfriend I was flush for her. I wanted to cosplay and have fun. But as the weird black girl in an all-black school, it was hard to be weird. Even the weird kids had an agenda, I was too in your face for them but I wasn't facebook/Instagram model for the other kids. I wanted to make a Homestuck family but I couldn't. Online was the only place I felt home with because I was alone on the outside. Even then I didn't know how to approach people, I didn't know how to make friends and I didn't know what or how to become involved. I was alone and watching on the sidelines again as the "cool" kids got to have fun. I was happy for them.
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I've become apart of a lot of fandoms that have died, CiTCF is one of them, if only I was old enough to be in that one in the 2000s. Inuyasha will always be the first anime I ever watched and loved. I wanted to be Kagome so baaaad. I'm 20 now and I want to still cosplay and do things. I want to show my love. But my state isn't where love for fandoms blossom, I know that there is someone in my state that feels the same way I do. They feel alone in what they want to do and if only I could reach out and hug them I would tell them we could be a family. I won't waste my twenties not doing what I should have done in my teens.
I want to explore and I want to have fun.
I want to breathe life into my love for Hetalia
I want to paint my skin and learn makeup so I can be a troll
I want someone to take the time and walk me through how to sew
I want to take pictures of me and my cosplay family "At Walmart in cosplay" "Went out to eat and Deku almost threw up"
Sakura couldn't hear it but I was crying on my end during call. I just wish that early 2010s would come back so I can be free to do as I please.
I also want to experience a emo/scene/gothic "phase" because I couldn't and that's the reason I'm repressed now >:G
I'm alternative gothic at heart yo. I missed so many milestones and that's why I'm not the person I want to be.